Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 67

Gu Yin just got up at that moment.

The previous night, her hands and feet were no longer itchy in the middle of the night. She had the sweetest dream.

In her dream, she opened a restaurant that was no worse than Full Moon Hall, and even hired Manager Zhou into her own restaurant.

Their dishes were good. Mrs. Wang helped with other trivial matters. The business was booming, and they were all ready to go to the capital to open a branch.

In her previous life, she disappeared when her porridge shop expanded, and opening a branch seemed to be a knot in her heart.

After that dream ended, Gu Yin became more motivated, and when she woke up, she saw Xiao Wu’an, who was squatting on the head of the bed with his hands on his chin.

The little guy looked at her unblinkingly, and when he saw her awake, he immediately turned his back.

“Why aren’t you in bed early in the morning?”

Xiao Wu’an said, “Mother told me to watch you, for fear that you will go out again when you get up.”

Gu Yin glanced outside. The sky outside was still gloomy, and the wind was whimpering, but at least it didn’t snow again.

As she put on her coat, she asked, “Can’t I go out if it’s not snowing?”

Xiao Wu’an shook his head in an old-fashioned manner, and copied Mrs. Wang’s tone, “Tell your sister-in-law to be honest! If the old lady boils the hot water and finds that your sister-in-law is missing, I will make you a pig’s head. Your pig head will be on the offering table!”

Gu Yin laughed so much that her face hurt.

Xiao Wu’an also laughed, “Anyway, that’s what my mother said.”

After speaking, Gu Yin took Xiao Wu’an out of the door.

Mrs. Wang was in the kitchen room, with her ears sticking out, when she heard the sound of her door, she immediately walked from the kitchen room to the main room, and urged, “I have the hot water boiled, and the tub is cleaned. Come and wash!”

In that weather, she couldn’t go out after washing. If there was a cold wind, one would definitely get sick.

What else could Gu Yin say? She could only go back to her room to get a change of clothes.

Mrs. Wang had moved the long table in the middle of the kitchen. The water jars and the baskets for the ingredients were piled up in a corner, the back door and windows were also closed, and cloth strips were tucked into the cracks of the windows and doors.

There was a large tub in the middle. Before Gu Yin could do it by herself, Mrs. Wang helped pour the hot water on the tub, and then poured cold water from the water tank.

When the hot water filled the entire tub, Mrs. Wang said, “Bath.”

Seeing that Gu Yin was feeling embarrassed again, she didn’t insist on helping with the bathing, closed the door and went out.

Gu Yin took a comfortable hot bath and washed her hair with soap.

Mrs. Wang drove her back to the room to stay, turned around and took a cloth to wrap her hair, and stuffed her with the steamed buns she had just steamed in the morning, and let her sit in the room to eat.

After making sure that Gu Yin looked like that, and would not go out again, Mrs. Wang got busy with her own business.

It was at this time that Wen Peifeng came over.

He couldn’t even think about what happened the day before.

He brought the Laba porridge given by Gu Yin to Old Master Wen.

Old Master Wen accepted his filial piety, and said while eating, “You are caring. At my age, I can eat two bites less. So why is it worth it to run around and invite a cook for me?”

After speaking, he tasted the porridge, and the old man’s complexion changed.

Wen Peifeng thought it didn’t taste good, so he immediately explained, “This is the porridge that the little lady cooked at noon, but it got cold, so I reheated it. Maybe its smell had gone. Can you give that little lady a chance and let me invite her to cook a new one?”

Old Master Wen put down the bowl and asked, “What little lady? Is that the big bear who came with you in the afternoon?”

Wen Peifeng said, “It’s freezing cold and the little lady was wearing thick clothes. In fact, she looks good.”

“Is she fair and beautiful, with particularly bright eyes?”

In Wen Peifeng’s mind, Gu Yin’s eyes flashed with a sly smile, and those eyes were indeed smart and clear.

He lowered his eyes and said yes.

Old Master Wen slapped his thigh, “You bring that big bear… No, you invite that little lady over, we’ll invite her!”

Mrs. Wen hated to owe favors the most. When he resigned from Beijing, he never asked his colleagues for help.

On the same day, he accepted the favor of the two families, but forgot their address, so he could only ask the servants to help him find out.

However, although Hanshan Town was small, it had a population of several thousand. Finding two people was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

He thought there would be no more finding on that matter, but didn’t expect that the little lady who had cooked porridge for him came to the Wen’s house on her own. Although the Laba porridge was reheated, as soon as he tasted it, he knew that the porridge couldn’t be cooked by an ordinary person.

Then Mr  Wen asked Wen Peifeng to invite her.

Wen Peifeng and Gu Yin were acquainted, as Gu Yin often went there to buy rice. It was the most taboo for men and women to talk to each other, so in fact, the two sides were not particularly familiar, and he just heard them say that they set up a stall at the pier.

The wind and snow were so heavy that day, the canal could not be used for boats for a long time, and there were not even wild birds on the pier.

Wen Peifeng could only ask the residents near the pier.

Although these residents did not seek life on the pier, most of them would buy some food on the pier for convenience.

In that weather, it would be hard for anyone to be woken up. After being scolded by three family members, Wen Peifeng found out that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law probably lived in Jinyi Alley, because someone saw that Mrs. Wang asked Officer Caotou to find a child. 

Jinyi Alley was a general term, and the small alleys in that area were included. It was not easy to get the news. Wen Peifeng went door-to-door to ask.

It was also due to the reputation of “evil mother-in-law and charming daughter-in-law” that was also very loud in that area, he finally found them.

Wen Peifeng thought that they did not have an adult man at home, so he specially brought an old mama from the house to accompany him.

When Mrs. Wang came to open the door, she was surprised when she saw Wen Peifeng, and asked, “Why are you, the young shopkeeper here?” As she spoke, she opened the door and invited people to the main room to speak.